As his London Packet approached the colonies in November 1774, Thomas Paine was not scanning for land. After turning northwards towards Philadelphia in Delaware Bay, the former privateer was not visualizing where, during the Seven Years War, French privateer ships awaited English prey within the folds of the eastern shore.[1] Stricken with typhus fever that […] The post The Loyalist Who Gave Birth to His Nightmare appeared first on Journal of the American Revolution.| Journal of the American Revolution
Travis Glasson— This year marks the beginning of a series of 250th anniversaries of the events of the American Revolution. These anniversaries, which will spool out against the backdrop of... READ MORE| Yale University Press
